The Scuba Club by Rene Fomby

Author:Rene Fomby [Fomby, Rene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947304154
Publisher: Book Ness Monster Press
Published: 2020-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

30

Tara

Espinosa and Tara were already waiting for Gavin as he stepped out of the owner’s cabin and joined them in the cramped interview area just outside. Espinosa had a placid look on his face, but Tara seemed nervous, her eyes darting between the two men like a caged beast as Gavin pulled up a chair. Something in that look reminded him of his ex-wife, and he had to shake his head slightly to drive out that especially unpleasant image.

“I take it something’s changed,” Tara said before Gavin could ask his first question. “It’s the little knife, isn’t it? You found out something about that knife that’s narrowed down the investigation, didn’t you? Who is it? Still Trevor? ‘Cause like I told you, he’s the only person who could have possibly killed her. And his knife was the only one missing.”

Gavin paused, drawing out the moment. Tara seemed almost too eager to get started, and he needed to understand why. But first he needed an answer to something else he had noticed when he’d first been introduced to her soon after coming on board the boat.

“Before we get started, Mrs. Cutler, do you mind telling me about that bruise you’ve got going for you on the right side of your forehead? How did you get that?”

Her right hand jerked up involuntarily, covering the bruise for just a second before she seemed to notice what she had done and yanked it back down. “This? Oh, well, would you believe me if I said Brett likes to smack me around every now and then?” she answered with an awkward smile.

Gavin shook his head. “Highly unlikely. Your husband is right-handed. If he’d hit you, it almost certainly would have been from the other side.”

“How observant of you. No, you’re right, I got this the first night we were on the boat. Stumbled into the doorframe of the bathroom trying to go pee in the middle of the night. I would have turned on a nightlight, but Brett is a very light sleeper and I didn’t want to disturb him.”

“I see. That makes perfect sense.” Gavin wrote something into his notepad, then caught her eye. “Okay, Mrs. Cutler, let’s focus in on the night dive, again. When we talked earlier, you indicated that the last time you saw Katy Mulcahey was around thirty minutes into the dive. Has your memory on that changed since then?”

Her forehead wrinkled slightly. “No, I think that’s about right. But like I said, I wasn’t really checking my watch at the time, so I could be slightly off. Why?”

“And for most of the dive, you testified that Casey and Billie were drifting well ahead of the group, a great distance away from Trevor and Katy.”

“Yeah, that’s right. They would float ahead, then park themselves behind some coral formation every now and then and wait for the rest of us to catch up. Why? What have you learned?”

Gavin pointedly ignored her questions, but watched her reactions carefully, like a cat studying a bug.

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